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The Principles and Elements of great design in
floral art and flower arranging is finally now available in an exclusive CD, " Principles and Elements in Floral Design" with Ngaire Clarke. Try a lesson on each element and principle with a floral project to try, read more here. The feature illustrated here is scale
Scale
"The
comparative size of the individual parts to each other, to the whole, and
to the allotted staging space." from 'Flair' published by FASNZ.
Scale is about the size of
all the parts of an arrangement, including the container, the flowers,
the foliage, and accessories, the base the design is on the area it takes
up. Therefore a tiny accessory would look odd beside a large leaf or flower,
and a huge vase with tiny flowers peeking out the top would perhaps
be the start of a new, never seen before, trend!!
A closer look at the design
shows it was a full size deck chair and beach towel, so you can see
the size of that base and those anthirriums was huge!
Don't you love the complementery
colour scheme they chose of red and green!
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This wonderful piece by
the Hibiscus Coast Floral Art Club was staged in a huge marquee at the
Elleslie Flower Show in New Zealand in Nov 2001.
It therefore had to be big
to be in scale to the marquee, so the plant foliage had to be big, as did
the accessory, the anthirriums and the base it sits on. It also had to
be tall to be in scale with the other parts of the design and even the
towel drape had to be big and bold to fit to scale.
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Rue du Royale is the premier shopping street in Paris.This Christmas we
found it featured these Christmas trees "growing" out of boxes, with
fairy lights and a strip of gold fabric. These were repeated all down the
shop fronts, so they had to be big...in scale with the surroundings! The
big ribbon was in the same scale and then the masses of fairy lights made
the small individual lights become a bigger whole and they were in scale
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J. Green of Midlothian, VA, USA.designed "Windows "- using yellow spider
chrysathemums, twisted willow branches sprayed black and white. Containers
are PVC pipe sprayed grey with design inside and extending through the
window panes.
This was a table design
and so she immediately adjusted the scale. Thicker "windows" are in scale
with the flowers and the PVC pipe, and all is in scale with the available
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A wedding buttonhole, spray
or buttonaire, has to be small in scale. This exquisite design on
the left used the tiniest orchids, ribbon and tips of conifer and other
foliage all perfectly in scale with each other, and the coat lapel
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Video
Decorate
By Design with Mary Cynthia: Scale & Balance Decorate by Design
Decorating Course, vol.5 : Scale & Balance
Scale & Balance- Covers
how all your decorating elements work together: furniture, window treatments,
wallcovering, architectural features. Get the right look for the least
amount of money!
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